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ID: NMCD162 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra This colourful disc showcases Richard Ayres’s melodic, eclectic and theatrical style, which owes as much to the exuberance of Janacek as Kagel’s experiments: Ayres explains “I want to use consonance, dissonance, melody, texture, elephants, clouds, snowballs, anything, from any time and whenever it is needed.”
1 - 4 Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra / Roland Kluttig, conductor
5 - 17 Wim Timmermans, horn / ASKO Ensemble / Roland Kluttig, conductor
18 - 20 Marco Blauuw, trumpet / Musik Fabrik / Roland Kluttig, conductor |
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ID: NMCD015M CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Holloway's Second Concerto for Orchestra displays the composer at his most thrilling and eclectic. Inspired by a visit to North Africa, the work pulsates with energy and excitement.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - BEST CONTEMPORARY RECORDING 1994 "A fascinating disc: the Concerto isn't quite like anything else I know, and in every aspect NMC have served it well. It deserves the widest possible hearing."Gramophone 1994 |
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ID: NMCD005 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Lento is music of extraordinary directness and simplicity. It is an enigmatic and hypnotic work within which shifting modal chords progress through the orchestra to create a chorale-like, almost architectural form beneath a calm melodic surface; now something of a cult piece, it is NMC's most consistently-selling recording since its release in 1990. |
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ID: NMCD027S CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra The first in NMC's series of BBC Proms commissions, Nicholas Sackman's Hawthorn is characterised by a colourful whirlwind of shuddering rhythms, vast swirling textures and lyrical lines. |
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ID: NMCD028S CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Byrnan Wood was inspired by Shakespeare's famous peripatetic forest in Macbeth; it explores the possibilities offered by the permutation of stillness into movement, as musical figures pass between players like Chinese whispers. |
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ID: NMCD032 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Orchestra An encore for three cult works previously issued as singles on NMC and now available on one disc: Howard Skempton's Lento; Dominic Muldowney's Oboe Concerto; and Barry Guy's After the Rain. |
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ID: NMCD040S CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Red Earth reflects the parched landscape of the Central Australian Desert through a haze of string writing, vivid orchestral colours and the drone of didjeridoos, working towards a savage and shocking climax. |
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ID: NMCD041S CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra A complex and intense score inspired by the 17th-century tradition of still-life 'vanitas' painting, Vanity explores the meaning of life through three linked movements. |
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ID: NMCD031 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears.
1. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oliver Knussen, conductor/ Stefan Asbury, assistant conductor
2. London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
3. William Howard, piano - Anthony Powers
4. Composers Ensemble/ Diego Masson, conductor
5. Alexander Baillie, cello/ Andrew Ball, piano
6. Mary Wiegold, soprano/ Composers Ensemble/ Dominic Muldowney, cond
7. Mstislav Rostropovich, cello/ London Symphony Orchestra/ Hugh Wolff, conductor
8. BBC Singers/ John Poole, conductor
9. Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
10. Nua Nos/ Noriko Kawai, piano/ Dairine Ni Mheadhra, conductor
11. Jane Manning, soprano/ Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
12. London Sinfonietta | Peter Serkin, cello | Oliver Knussen, conductor
13. Sounds Positive/ David Sutton-Anderson, conductor
14. Martin Robertson, saxophone/ Christopher van Kampen, cello/ The Nash Ensemble/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
15. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Andrew Davis, conductor
16. Peter Pears, tenor/ CBS Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten, conductor |
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ID: NMCD046M CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: Orchestra Lloyd's Symphony No.4 is a one-movement orchestral riot, the product of a truly eclectic imagination: the jazz influences of Milhaud and the orchestral palette of Britten temper the rigour of Lloyd's training in the tradition of Webern and Boulanger. |
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